Salon #49 – Yael Eban and Shannon Taggart

30 January 2020: 10×10 hosted a salon with Yael Eban and Shannon Taggart at the home of Richard and Ronnie Grosbard in Manhattan.

Yael Eban is a lens-based artist living and working in Brooklyn. She earned an MFA in Photography, Video & Related Media at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her work has been exhibited most recently at the Houston Center for Photography, Center for Creative Photography, and Stellar Projects. She has been featured in HyperallergicArtsy, and The FADER. Eban has been an artist-in-residence at MASS MoCA, The Wassaic Project, and Vermont Studio Center. She is currently co-director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid, a non-profit network of artist-run spaces. Eban’s has just published her first photobook, False Lighthouse. Comprised entirely of found photographs from the Peter J. Cohen Collection, it is artist’s layered examination of photography’s material and metaphysical attributes.

Yael Eban
From False Lighthouse by Yael Eban.

Shannon Taggart is a photographer based in Brooklyn who explores the intersection between art, anthropology, and the immaterial. Taggart’s photographs have been exhibited and featured internationally, including within the publications TIMENew York Times , Discover and Newsweek. Her work has been recognized by Nikon, Magnum Photos and the Inge Morath Foundation, American Photography, and the Alexia Foundation for World Peace. Her first monograph, SÉANCE, was listed as one of TIME’s best photobooks of 2019.

Thank you to Richard and Ronnie Grosbard for hosting this salon and providing food and drinks.

Séance by Shannon Taggart. 
Shannon Taggart shares Seance.
From Seance by Shannon Taggert.
Yael Eban shares False Lighthouse.
Yael Eban
From False Lighthouse by Yael Eban.